jehovas witnesses?

Question

are you all masons or are you just so over zealous than you haven't noticed that your leaders are? being zealous is a good thing - if for the right reason.
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/wtm.pdf *READ*
http://www.whale.to/b/sp/springmeier_b.html
http://www.christianscience.org/goldsmith.html (talks about scottish rite - which is 32 degree mason; 'christian science' is a cult)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006107/ &
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000025/ - for being in 'christian science' - not ONE of these movies is pro-christian in ANY way, shape or form. the movie titles include 'star trek & stargate'

*the 'extremist bombers' being called 'fundamentalists' when they're part of a religion that usually disowns them - and those who support 'intelligent design' are being called 'religious extremists' when they might not even be agnostic.* ~FOX news~

http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1753.cfm - (scan down to 2nd card) http://www.thewebfairy.com/killtown/lonegunmen.html

read my first link; the others deal with other masonic creations.

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses are unaffiliated with Masonry.

Jehovah's Witnesses consider Masonry to be a form of religion, and Witnesses reject "interfaith".

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/library/jt/article_03.htm

Answer 2

Sorry to burst your balloon, but Charles Taze Russell was not a Freemason. Want the full quote?

Charles Taze Russell?
Claims have been made that "Paster" Russell (1852/02/16-1916/10/31), founder of the International Bible Students Association — forerunner of the Jehovah's Witnesses — was a freemason; that the banner on the front of early issues of the Watchtower contained masonic symbols; and that Russell's gravestone bears a masonic cross and crown symbol.
Russell was not a freemason. Neither the symbols found in the Watchtower nor the cross and crown symbol are exclusively masonic. And the cross and crown symbol does not appear on his gravestone in the Rosemont United Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — it appears on a memorial erected some years later.

In an address delivered in a San Francisco masonic hall in 1913, Russell made positive use of masonic imagery by saying, "Now, I am a free and accepted mason. I trust we all are. But not just after the style of our masonic brethren." He further develops this idea: "true Bible believers may or may not belong to the masonic fraternity, but they are all masons of the highest order, since they are being fashioned, chiselled and polished by the Almighty to be used as living stones in the Temple Built Without Hands. They are free from sin, and therefore accepted by the God of Heaven as fit stones for the heavenly Temple." Later in this address, Russell stated quite clearly that "I have never been a mason." Those who claim Russell was a freemason quote this address out of context without noting the rhetorical imagery.

Although Russell wrote about the pyramids and the Knights Templar, the pyramids are not a part of Freemasonry and Russell's understanding of the relationship between the modern Knights Templar and Freemasonry displays an outsider's ignorance of both organizations.

And anyone who quotes Fox "news" is in trouble, indeed.

Proud to be an American Co-Mason.

Answer 3

The things you wrote after the question lack cohesiveness. You went from calling JWs Masons to talking about Christian Scientists--a completely different cultish religion.

I am the child of JWs, by the way, and NOT one, but I can tell you they aren't allowed to be Masons or join any other of those secret organizations. They're not even allowed to let their children be cheerleaders or basketball players for the public school team. They aren't allowed to perform in the school choir or the mothers aren't allowed to be in the Lion's Club. No 4-H, Boy/Girl Scouts, none of that.

I agree with you it's highly unusual how they follow "the governing body", one of the richest "nations" in the world. But you did not make any particular point or needed to perhaps separate each of the points you were trying to make and include these in different questions.

Answer 4

All organized religions are cults including Jehovah's Witness. People are searching for a name and a reason to put to the desire for terrorism. It comes from hate. Hate comes from unresolved grief piled higher and higher, mixed with opportunity to strike back at the biggest target. Ever played King of the Mountain? When people who have been underprivilidged are raised by kids or very young adults, mixed with the desire to strike back, they learn weaponry and are easily programmed to have a need to hurt someone to prove that what they have learned in life, including the justification for their own idea of how afterlife is, is right! It is all they have and hence they use it.

Answer 5

Where did you get information like this? That is definatly one of the most bizarre things I have heard to date.
I have been one of Jehovah's Witnesses for 22 years, having been raised as one and having made my own decision to live as one.
The person who said they were born to JW's, the comments made after that were rather shortsighted and off.
It is NOT true that we are not allowed to do these things. It is a choice on our part, on our parents part on how we live our lives. It never ceases to amaze me that people don't seem to have an issue with religions that allow things that hurt people, that hurt eachother. Why are we against war? Because it's murder of our fellow man. We follow what is in the Bible, it's that simple. We believe that the things set forth in the Bible are God's words or laws that he set forth for us. He gave us the way to live our lives to the fullest, without hurting ourselves.
Yes, I would hope that we are zealous. The more you believe in something, the more you are going to promote that. When you learn something, there is always a deep desire to show others what you have learned.
Did I miss out on holidays as a child? Yeah, and I never was sorry for that. I have grown up watching children who have birthday parties, who turn into greedy brats, even the best of children. On holidays - we don't celebrate Christmas because we don't want our families, children, or friends to not get gifts or to deprive eachother of any sort of joy, but because we do not believe that is when Christ was born. Halloween..sure that looks like fun, but the fundemental of that is worshipping the Devil and his minions, who just so happens to be God's enemy! Why would you go against God who created you, gave you life, gave you the world, literaly?
There is so much hype out there about Witnesses because, yes, we are different. Willingly so. We make a lot of effort to be different, not to show off, but to keep ourselves separate from the things that God hates and disapproves of.
If you are honestly interested in finding out facts about Witnesses, then I would be more than willing to answer questions to the best of my ability, not with the purpose of converting, but understanding alone. Feel free to contact me.
But you really should not make connections with things that you don't know or understand about without confirming your facts first. We are not associated with Freemasons or any other religion, and we are not a cult. Sorry but that just makes me laugh.

Answer 6

Pick a subject and I can find a conspiracy theory to back it up or disprove it.

Answer 7

...are Satan's Army.

Answer 8

what are you talking about?